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If you don't know too much about the game of Go, you'll find yourself enlightened after visiting gobase.org ( http://gobase.org ), which contains a variety of information about the game. If you're a complete Go amateur, like I am, you...
Google Opens Site For India
Google continues to expand their international presence with the launch this week of Google India -- http://www.google.co.in . The site is offered in Hindi, Bengali, Telegu, Marathi, and English. You can search the entire Web or restrict your searches to...
July 23, 2003Rocketnews.com Now Offering Weblog Results
News search engine Rocketnews ( http://www.rocketnews.com ) is now offering weblogs as a search category. That makes the following categories available for search on their site: general, business/finance, science, technology, health, sports, entertainment, and weblogs. In addition to category you...
Continue reading "Rocketnews.com Now Offering Weblog Results" » University of Texas at Austin Puts Gutenberg Bible Online
The University of Texas at Austin has scanned in its Gutenberg Bible, making thousands of images available from its Web site at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/ . Before you get into the page images, take the time to view a few other images...
Continue reading "University of Texas at Austin Puts Gutenberg Bible Online" » Canadian Genealogy Centre Offers 1915-1932 Canadian Naturalization Lists
The Canadian Genealogy Centre is offering a new database of immigrants who received Canadian naturalization certificates, which were published in the Canada Gazette between 1915 and 1932. It's available at http://www.genealogy.gc.ca/01/010203_e.html . You can search this database by given name,...
Continue reading "Canadian Genealogy Centre Offers 1915-1932 Canadian Naturalization Lists" » July 22, 2003Google News Now Offering Advanced Search
Yay! Google News, even though it's still in beta, is now offering advanced searching with options to limit searches by date and more. The advanced search is available by choosing "Advanced Search" from http://news.google.com. If you've ever used the regular...
Continue reading "Google News Now Offering Advanced Search" » State of Illinois Adds Global Search to Its Genealogy Databases
The state of Illinois has a huge number of available genealogy databases at http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases.html. In fact, there are so many that it's kind of a pain to search them. But now the state also offers a global search of all...
Continue reading "State of Illinois Adds Global Search to Its Genealogy Databases" » July 21, 2003Pet Travel Offers Worldwide Database of Pet Accommodations
If you want to take Fluffy to Fiji or Rover to Reykjavik, be sure to check out Pet Travel first. Pet Travel ( http://www.pettravel.com/ ) offers information about over 16,000 pet-friendly accommodations in over 100 countries. The front page is...
Continue reading "Pet Travel Offers Worldwide Database of Pet Accommodations" » Reviews of Materials in Large Print
If you're like me and you've worn out your eyes navigating sites decorated in appliance green and bright orange, you'll appreciate the materials available at Large Print Reviews ( http://largeprintreviews.com/ ). As you might have guessed from the site title,...
Florida Memory Adds WWI Service Cards
Florida Memory, the site of the Florida State Archives, has added a database of Floridians (those from Florida or those who entered the service in Florida) who served in World War I. It's available at http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/WWI/ . Since 42,000 Floridians...
July 18, 2003Horror Movies and Horror Links
Carfax Abbey ( http://www.carfax-abbey.com/ ) is a site that offers both a database of over 550 horror films and a link section with over 150 links to horror film sites. There are several ways to view film information. You can...
Tech Headlines, Law and Legal Headlines
Yeah, I'm a news junkie. As if you didn't know. If you're into tech news and legal news, check out the Daily Whirl and Daily Rotation, which offer headlines from literally hundreds of sites. The Daily Rotation, at http://www.dailyrotation.com ,...
Continue reading "Tech Headlines, Law and Legal Headlines" » July 17, 2003Cornell University Creates Home Economics Archive
Cornell University has created an archive of over 1,500 volumes (over 600,000 pages) related to home economics at http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/index.html. The volumes available within were published between 1850 and 1950 and are just as fun a cultural browse as they are...
Continue reading "Cornell University Creates Home Economics Archive" » Yahoo Adds Still More RSS Feeds
Remember how I said that Yahoo was adding RSS feeds? Well, they're still doing it. A tip of the nib to Jeremy Z for pointing out that Yahoo's buzz has added five new feeds: * Daily tracking of most popular...
July 16, 2003Subject Index of History Resources
History Guide, at http://www.historyguide.de/start.php, has a great way to explore the over 3,000 resources available at this site via browsing pages or a neat pull-down menu. Let's explore the pull-down menu first, from the front page. Here you can search...
IRS Makes Database of Political Organizations Available
The Internal Revenue Service has created the Political Organization Filing and Disclosure Website at http://www.irs.gov/charities/political/article/0,,id=109644,00.html. At this site you can both file Form 8871, Political Organization Notice of Section 527 Status, and Form 8872, Political Organization Report of Contributions and...
Continue reading "IRS Makes Database of Political Organizations Available" » July 15, 2003An Online Archive of Speech Accents
Use your words! Language scholars and teachers will find the Speech Accent Archive, at http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/, a useful resource. Speech Accent Archive contains over 250 English-language speech samples in accents ranging from Afrikaans to Zulu. Each speaker is speaking the same...
Database of Science Fiction Books and Authors
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book List Site (http://www.sfbooklist.co.uk/) is an attempt to put together a comprehensive bibliography of science fiction and fantasy authors. Considering that this site has over 4,000 authors, they're doing a pretty good job. Oddly enough,...
Continue reading "Database of Science Fiction Books and Authors" » July 14, 2003Random Google Searching With Bananaslug
Random searching fans will enjoy the random weirdness culled from Google API application Bananaslug (http://www.bananaslug.com/). This application allows you to enter a search term, and then choose from a variety of vocabularies which will add a random word to your...
Continue reading "Random Google Searching With Bananaslug" » Yahoo Buys Overture -- AIIEEE or Not?
Okay, here's the news. Yahoo buys Overture. (Press release a http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030714/145438_1.html) On the one hand I'm completely unsurprised. On the other hand I'm resisting the urge to bounce off the walls, Daffy Duck-like, yelling AIEEEEEE! Read more about my thoughts...
July 11, 2003Lii.org Releases Subject Guide for Mysteries
To celebrate their inclusion in a mystery novel, the Librarians' Index to the Internet has released "Mysteries and More," a searchable subject index for mystery reading. It's at http://lii.org/search/file/mysteries. Topics include book lists, awards, detective slang, and mystery reading groups....
Continue reading "Lii.org Releases Subject Guide for Mysteries July 10, 2003Grant Explorer
Nonprofit organization directory GuideStar (http://www.guidestar.org/) is now offering Grant Explorer, with over 34,000 private foundations and 680,000 grants listed. This is a pay site but there is a demo available from the front page of the GuideStar site. There are...
Spam Laws Directory
There are plenty of spam laws being enacted or considered all over the world. A nice site for learning more about what's still on the table and what's been signed into law is http://www.spamlaws.com/. This site is divided into several...
July 09, 2003Cities and Buildings Database
If you're interested in buildings, check out The Cities and Buildings Database at http://content.lib.washington.edu/cities/. This site contains over 500 images of buildings from all over the world. The search engine is on the front left page. Here you'll be able...
Foreign Films
Foreign Films (http://www.foreignfilms.com/) is, as you'd expect, a Web site about foreign films, but there's plenty of extra stuff too. Current news is listed down the middle column. In the right column, you will see what is new in theaters,...
July 08, 2003Oyez Releases Supreme Court MP3 Files
The Oyez project has released its first set of Supreme Court oral arguments in MP3 audio. The arguments cover court cases from the 50s to the 70s and are available at http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/nitf/273/. Cases are listed on this page in alphabetical...
Feedster Updates Its Search Engine
Syntax wonks will have a field day; blog search engine Feedster (http://www.feedster.com) has updated its search engine to include a jaw-dropping array of syntaxes and search options. You can get a good idea of the overview at http://www.feedster.com/help/. Note that...
July 07, 2003Google News Now Offering German Version
Not too long ago, I mentioned country-specific versions of Google News (http://news.google.com.) Now Google News is offering a German-language version of Google News at http://news.google.de/. All the news summaries and links, as far as I can tell, are in German....
Continue reading "Google News Now Offering German Version" » State of Nevada Adds Census Files
The state of Nevada has added an online census database. It's available at http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/shpo/NVCENSUS/. This site is pretty amazing. It contains data from the federal manuscript censuses of 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920. The 1890 census material is...
Moreover's Results Integrated into Yahoo
Yahoo and Moreover both announced yesterday that Yahoo's News search has integrated Moreover's headlines. Moreover's news brings 3,500 sources to Yahoo's news search. ... which means now you can search for ResearchBuzz headlines at Yahoo. Heh. Anyway, you'll get the...
Continue reading "Moreover's Results Integrated into Yahoo" » July 05, 2003Library of Congress Adds Stars and Stripes from WWI
The Library of Congress has announced the online collection of The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919. It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/. This collection contains the complete run of the newspaper -- that's 71 weeks....
Continue reading "Library of Congress Adds Stars and Stripes from WWI" » July 02, 2003Get Your Cheese On
(DISCLAIMER: I was going to start this off with a "Cheese Shop" joke, but I can't spell "bazouki". You'll have to settle for Wallace and Gromit.) "Cheese, Gromit! We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!" That place is http://www.cheesenet.info/, CheeseNet, providing...
An Archive for Endangered Species
The WildScreen Trust in Bristol, England has built an online archive of multimedia related to endangered species around the world. It's called ARKive and it's available at http://www.arkive.org/. The information (available from the "Species" link) is divided into two sections:...
July 01, 2003Information on Neighborhood Preservation
Did you ever live in one of those wonderful old neighborhoods which was built 80 years or so ago with their nice level front yards, and their narrow streets, and their, like, sidewalks on both sides of the road? If...
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